Data analytics and visualizations for StarLogo Nova block programming platform

In this thesis, I designed and implemented an analytics tool for StarLogo Nova, a block-based programming platform for creating 3D simulations and games. This tool collects block data from the platform and visualizes the data into 15 different charts, showcasing both high-level and the more detailed aspects about the data. As a way to investigate how to improve StarLogo such that it is more accessible to beginner users and more extensible to experienced users, the tool includes charts that focus on the following four elements: tutorials, breed tabs, scrolling, and block size and placement. Suggestions for how to improve StarLogo's user interface, driven by a few runs of this tool on the data, are documented in this thesis as well.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2017

Author dc:creator

• Tse, Phoebe Hiuchin

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Eric Klopfer.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/119539

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/119539